How to use in-sentence of “supercontinent”:
– It was caused by a continental collision between Euramerica and Gondwana to form the supercontinent of Pangaea.
– The supercontinent Kenorland formed during this period, about 2.7 billion years ago.
– The supercontinent Rodinia began forming in this period.
– During the early or Lower Jurassic, the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into the northern supercontinent Laurasia and the southern supercontinent Gondwana.
– Their distribution across several continents led Eduard Suess to suggest the southern continents were once together in a single supercontinent – Gondwana.
Example sentences of “supercontinent”:
– At the time most continents were crowded together in the supercontinent Gondwana.
– This formed the supercontinent of Pangaea.
– Study of these rocks shows that the eon featured massive, rapid continental accretion, supercontinent cycles, and mountain building.
– It might be that all continental mass was again joined in one supercontinent between roughly 600 and 550 million years ago.
– This includes the evidence of important geological events, such as the amalgamation of the supercontinent Rodinia.
– The abelisaurids were a family of large theropods which lived only in the ancient southern supercontinent Gondwana.
– The supercontinent Pangaea was beginning to break up, causing a narrow Atlantic Ocean.
– The supercontinent of Gondwana was to the south, and the continent of Siberia to the north.
– The root cause of Wallace’s line is that the ancient supercontinent Gondwana was separated entirely from other parts of the world after Pangaea broke up.
– The earliest known supercontinent was called Vaalbara.
– The cause of this remarkable geographical feature was the movement of the Americas away from the supercontinent of Pangaea.
– Pangaea meaning “entire Earth” in Ancient Greek was the global supercontinent which formed in the Palaeozoic era.
– They lived in the Southern Hemisphere continents which had been part of the supercontinent Gondwana.
– The Caledonian orogeny was one of several orogenies that would eventually form the supercontinent Pangaea later in the Palaeozoic era.
– When that split, New Zealand became part of the southern supercontinent Gondwana.
– He named the supercontinent after the Gondwana region because some of the earliest rock formations of this continent were first investigated in part of the region, in modern Odisha.
– The supercontinent Pangaea was just starting to form.
– The birth of the Appalachian ranges, some 480 million years ago, was the first of several mountain-building tectonicsplate collisions as the supercontinent Pangaea formed.
– The supercontinent Pangaea was rifting during the Triassic – especially late in the period – but had not yet separated into different continents.
- At the time most continents were crowded together in the supercontinent Gondwana.
- This formed the supercontinent of Pangaea.
More in-sentence examples of “supercontinent”:
- Hundreds of millions of years ago, North America was part of a larger ancient supercontinent named Laurasia.
- Around 40 million years ago, the Indo-Australian PlateIndo-Australian tectonic plate began to split apart from the ancient supercontinent Gondwana.
– Hundreds of millions of years ago, North America was part of a larger ancient supercontinent named Laurasia.
– Around 40 million years ago, the Indo-Australian PlateIndo-Australian tectonic plate began to split apart from the ancient supercontinent Gondwana.
– During the Triassic period, all the continents were connected to form the supercontinent of Pangaea, and animals could migrate freely between them.
– The supercontinent Columbia formed at the beginning of this period.
– Even more clearly, Gondwana and Laurasia were supercontinents formed by the breakup of the global supercontinent Pangaea.
– Laurussia was a minor supercontinent which formed in the Devonian period.
– Geologically, the Paleozoic starts shortly after the breakup of a supercontinent called Rodinia and at the end of a global ice age.
– Toward the end of the era, the continents gathered together into a supercontinent called Pangaea, which included most of the Earth’s land area.
– A global supercontinent existed from about 1.8 to 1.5 billion years ago in the Palaeoproterozoic era.
– About 750 million years ago the older supercontinent Rodinia split apart into three continents.
– Almost all this land was part of the ancient southern supercontinent of Gondwana, which started to break up 150 million years ago.
– Although Laurasia is known as a Mesozoic phenomenon, today it is believed that the same continents that formed the later Laurasia also existed as a coherent supercontinent after the breakup of Rodinia around 1 billion years ago.
– Ur joined with the continents Nena Nena and Atlantica about 1 billion years ago to form the supercontinent Rodinia.
– It was formerly part of the ancient Tethys Ocean, which surrounded the old global supercontinent of Pangaea.
– By the start of the Jurassic period, some 30 million years later, the supercontinent began to split into Laurasia and Gondwana.
– In geologygeological terms, Africa-Eurasia may be a supercontinent if Africa collides with Europe.
– When the global continent Pangaea broke up early in the Jurassic period, the great southern supercontinent Gondwana was formed.
– The first supercontinent Vaalbara broke up during this time, around 3.2 billion years ago.
– Geologically, the Mesozoic starts with almost all the Earth’s land collected into a supercontinent called Pangaea.
– They formed at various times since plate tectonics began on Earth.Generally Pangea and Gondwana are considered as parts of the same supercontinent Gondwana-Pangea..
– The 1st supercontinent Vaalbara appeared around the end of this period around 3.6 billion years ago.
– Africa-Eurasia is a supercontinent and the world’s biggest landmass.
– New Zealand became part of the global supercontinent Pangaea.
– The rainforest also holds many ancient plants which have survived from the southern supercontinent Gondwana.
– There were shallow seas near several continents, because a supercontinent called Pannotia had broken into smaller pieces.
– The first supercontinent grew, and some of the rocks were normal sedimentary rocks, not metamorphosed.
– It is unified in natural history and geology because of its ancient origin as part of the supercontinent Gondwana.
– The cycle of supercontinent formation, breakup, dispersal and reformation by plate tectonics occurs every 450 million years or so.
– Like its close neighbour, New Guinea, Australia was once part of the southern supercontinent of Gondwanaland.
– Marsupials evolutionevolved before the southern supercontinent Gondwana broke off from Pangaea 100 million years ago.
– It was part of the break-up of the supercontinent Pangaea.
– They were separated by the plate tectonics movements which happened when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up.
– This was on the northern supercontinent of Laurasia, roughly corresponding to Eurasia today plus North America.
– It was the time when the supercontinent Columbia began to form.
– These forests were on the equator, and the wetlands, which are always low-lying, stretched across the supercontinent of Laurussia.
– The supercontinent Columbia broke up during the Calymmian about 1.5 billion years ago.
– Fossils of the giant “Beelzebufo” from Cretaceous Madagascar suggest that the subfamily may have once ranged throughout the prehistoric supercontinent of Gondwana.
– This is because South America and Africa used to be connected, in a giant supercontinent called Gondwana.
– The second supercontinent Ur existed during this era, 3.1 billion years ago.
– At the time, the supercontinent of Laurasia had recently split into the continents of North America and Eurasia, although they were still connected by land bridges.
– Ur had survived as a single unit, until it was separated when the supercontinent Pangaea broke apart into Laurasia and Gondwana.
– Both South America and Madagascar were part of the supercontinent Gondwana before it broke up in the Cretaceous.
– The era saw many important events, including the development of most invertebrate groups, life’s conquest of land, the evolution of fish, reptiles, synapsids, amphibians, insects, and plants, the formation of the supercontinent of Pangea, and at least two distinct ice ages.
– The Pangaean global supercontinent was complete 250 million years ago.
– As part of the supercontinent cycle, plate tectonics may create a supercontinent within 250 million–350 million years.
– Almost all the Earth’s land mass was together in a single supercontinent called Pangaea.
– In the first Period period, the Tonian, the global supercontinent Rodinia broke up into separate land masses.